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Welcome to the official YouTube channel for Fort Union Trading Post National Historic Site. A virtual trip to Fort Union takes you back in time to the mid-19th century, the heyday of Fort Union and the fur trade on the Upper Missouri river. Commemorating brief period of peaceful coexistence between Northern Plains Indians and Euro-Americans at the most important fur trading post on the Upper Missouri from 1828-1867. Here the Assiniboine, Crow, Blackfeet, among others, traded buffalo robes and other furs for trade goods such as cloth, guns, blankets, knives, kettles and beads.